Blown Away on hovercraft

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0100

Yet another incredible review by The Cage, this time our album Blown Away.

“Hovercraft proves with Blown Away that time only sharpens real music, it never dulls it.”

“Hovercraft doesn’t chase moments on Blown Away, they create them.”

“Blown Away proves that Hovercraft’s moment didn’t pass, it waited.”

Blown Away by Hovercraft stands as a blazing statement of raw power, lived-in emotion, and timeless creative force.

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:10:00 +0100

Return Of Rock rocked Blown Away, describing it as:

“…a feral, heart-on-fire album…sounding impossibly alive…feels urgent in the way only real music does.”

‘Blown Away’ moves with remarkable focus. The sequencing feels intentional, drawing you deeper into its emotional gravity with each track.

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:01:00 +0100

The Whistling Traveller reviews Indie Kid from Blown Away:

dynamic, fun, fast, and sharp as ever.

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0100

Illustrate Magazine reviewed New Pine Overcoat / Angel and Blown Away.

fragile art rescued from oblivion

a messy and vulnerable final flare shot into the void

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:48:00 +0100

Absolutely incredible review of Blown Away by Dave Franklin at The Big Takeover.

“… these are great songs… raw, power-pop groove meets indie cool meets punky energy… Poetic, mystical, and marvellous.”

songs that should have been hits in any era of modern music.

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:21:00 +0100

RGM (Reyt Good Music) interview and album review.

“The whole album traces that arc from hope to wreckage, sophistication to chaos. Like Britain itself, really. Like the hovercraft technology we’re named after…”

“…scrappy, unfiltered, and not remotely fussed if the edges slice your fingers… the most honest thing you’ve heard in years”

…messy, desperate and properly brilliant

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:08:00 +0100

The Indie Grid reviews Blown Away.

“…These thirteen tracks roar with the youthful volatility… punk-blueprints and scrappy alt-rock skeletons held up to the light… what’s remarkable is how alive this record feels… the kind of track bands spend their whole careers chasing.”

a fever dream of defiance and collapse

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:17:00 +0100

Big thanks to Miguel Castillo for his amazing reviews at La Caverna.

New Pine Overcoat / Angel: “…the spirit of a youth oscillating between idealism and fatalism….evoking a world where hope and exhaustion coexist…a devastating portrait of loss, dependency, and bitter resilience.”

…a double release that perfectly embodies its raw, emotional and deeply human aesthetic.

Blown Away: “…the fantasy of escaping reality while admitting the impossibility of sustaining a heroic facade….addictions, disenchantment, vulnerability and the desperate search for meaning.”

…an acidic portrait of British youth, drenched in endless nights and existential disorientation.

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:57:00 +0100

Another superlative review from the guys at Music For All!

Blown Away: “…a phenomenal album! A tracklist, incidentally, that has absolutely no decadent moments.

With just the right amount of speed (Charlie would love this one!)

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:52:00 +0100

What a fantastic review of Blown Away by Edgar Allen Poets!

“…restless, stylish, and driven by a desire to move… mix of nostalgia and adrenaline… the band proves they’re unafraid to take stylistic risks… dreamy but grounded, hazy but intentional… The groove is infectious…”

Every track contributes something distinct, and together they form a journey that keeps you locked in until the closing note.

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:50:00 +0100

A couple of really terrific reviews over at Hit Harmony Haven.

New Pine Overcoat/ Angel: “…raw, human, and unmistakably real… the kind of lyric Britpop could have produced but rarely did… ahead of its time… an emotional arc that feels less like a demo reconstruction and more like a cinematic short film.”

Hovercraft’s revival is not simply nostalgic, but restorative. It bridges time, technology, memory, and grief, turning the act of musical resurrection into an artistic statement of its own.

And Blown Away: “…an emotional excavation… stylish, restless, and subtly melancholic beneath the adrenaline… swagger laid over vulnerability, noise layered over doubt… hypnotic soundscapes… a unique dream-blues sensibility.”

Hovercraft presents not the polished fantasy of what the band could have been, but the flawed, brilliant, beating heart of what it was.

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:42:00 +0100

Our friends at Sinusoidal in India reviewed New Pine Overcoat / Angel and Blown Away.

a chance to face the pain, instead of running away from it.

Songwriting, with purpose

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:04:00 +0100

Lost Songs.

Vanished Songwriter.

Resurrected Band.

In 1995, four friends from Grimsby formed a band called Hovercraft.

They played loud.

They played raw.

They wrote songs that meant something.

Their demo “Mr Tooting Brown” hit No. 1 on the local charts.

And then, in 1996, their songwriter Piers “Charlie Pepper” Wildman vanished.

One day he was rehearsing with the band.

The next, he was gone.

No note. No explanation.

Just a missing friend and a box of cassette tapes.

Hovercraft fell apart.

The Resurrection

For nearly thirty years, the tapes sat in drawers and cupboards — warped, tangled, half-erased by time.

In 2024, surviving members Golly God and Ron Nasty began a strange experiment:

Rebuilding lost songs using:

battered cassette tapes
fragmentary lyric sheets
half-remembered arrangements
and new AI reconstruction tools

Not remastering.

Not re-recording.

Reconstructing.

What emerged wasn’t nostalgia.

It was sound archaeology — a band being dug up and rebuilt, piece by piece, memory by memory.

Current momentum

Hovercraft’s resurrection is spreading:

now on 72 playlists with a combined 186K reach,
nearly 3,000 streams across Spotify,
over 500 playlist adds,
26 press features across five continents,
and listeners saving songs at above-average rates.

Three Albums. One Long Message.

SHAKEN NOT STIRRED

Neo-soul sophistication · October 2025

“A work of sound archaeology.” — La Caverna (Mexico)

ON THE ROCKS

Darker, experimental terrain · November 2025

“Falls into our world through a crack in time.” — Punk Head

BLOWN AWAY

Raw indie-punk catharsis · December 5, 2025

Blown Away by Hovercraft (UK)

The Story We’re Still Living

1995: Hovercraft form in Grimsby. “Mr Tooting Brown” hits local No. 1.
1996: Songwriter Piers “Charlie Pepper” Wildman disappears. Band collapses.
2015: Brief Facebook contact, then silence.
2025: AI reconstruction begins. Cassette tapes digitised. Lost songs resurrected.
2025: Listeners around the world hear Hovercraft for the first time.

But the story was never just about the music.

It’s about four friends who lost one of their own.

It’s about finishing something that never got an ending.

It’s about sending a signal into the dark and hoping someone hears it.

Every song we release is both memorial and message.

The Search for Charlie

Piers “Charlie Pepper” Wildman

Last believed to be in the Bournemouth area around 2017.

No confirmed contact since.

If you knew Charlie — if you met him, worked with him, saw a post, heard a rumour, or have even the smallest detail — we would like to hear from you.

Contact:

god@hovercraft.band

All messages kept confidential.

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Blown Away available for pre-orders

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:00:00 +0100

The final devastating act of our debut trilogy. Not for the faint-hearted.

Blown Away by Hovercraft (UK)